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Feb 22

Winners of the What is Graphic design poster competition

2008 at 11.47 am posted by Veerle Pieters

The moment of truth is finally here! I’m ready to announce who is in for a prize. This wasn’t easy, as you’ve seen in my previous post there are a lot of great entries in this pool. I’ve picked a bunch of favorites let them rest for a bit and came back to them and made my final decision.

12th prize

13th prize

14th prize

15th prize

That's it! Congrats to the winners and thanks to everyone else for making this such a blast!

The Flickr pool is back open

I opened the pool again too for anybody who feels like playing a little more. Only rule is to stick to what the contest was about. Any other non related work will be deleted as I want to keep this pool as a source of inspiration to what is graphic design.

Mail me your details

To all the winners please email me you full name, address, phone number (needed for courier) etc and the T-shirt size for those who won one to veerle at duoh dot com. Please be clear in who you are and what you won as some don't use their real name. I don't want to have to go look who is who :) Thanks.

This initiative was really nice, and I was excited about this competition, but boy oh boy, the results are so very disappointing. “Graphic Design is about doing it right”? “is surprising”? “is about colors, fonts and shapes”? Can you be more vague, or wrong?

However, I won’t blame Veerle for picking these, I saw them all on Flickr, there’s even more absurd stuff there… it just saddens me.

Congratulations to all who made it out of the obvious and ignorant statements and won (#1 and #5), you guys deserved it.

Thank you so much V for taking the time and putting so much effort on making such a great and fun contest. Really, I don’t know how you found the time between pain-in-the-neck Spanish clients and painting the house :)

Also, thank you to all who participated, and congratulations to the other Winners!

Jan Fri Feb 22, 2008 at 03.45 pm

WOW! Thank you Veerle so much for this opportunity. I can’t believe I won forth place. It feels like such an honor. I will definitely be sending you my info for the courier. Congratulations to all the other winners and can’t wait to see what the next competition will focus on. Take care.

This initiative was really nice, and I was excited about this competition, but boy oh boy, the results are so very disappointing. “Graphic Design is about doing it right”? “is surprising”? “is about colors, fonts and shapes”? Can you be more vague, or wrong? However, I won’t blame Veerle for picking these, I saw them all on Flickr, there’s even more absurd stuff there… it just saddens me. Congratulations to all who made it out of the obvious and ignorant statements and won (#1 and #5), you guys deserved it.

I can’t agree with you more. Yet still, it was a great competition. Had a lot of fun and that’s the most important thing I guess..

Second, what are the chances some (or all) of these could be made available as poster-sized prints for us to put in our offices and point to when clients as what “this graphic design thing is?”

I’d be more than happy to offer somebody a full-size poster print. I just have to check if anybody around would print something that big. I’m planning on printing a few of my posters for myself so if there is anyone else interested in I could order a couple of copies more and send to you.. If so.. let me know. You can find my contact info on my website.

Veerle Fri Feb 22, 2008 at 08.28 pm

Second, what are the chances some (or all) of these could be made available as poster-sized prints for us to put in our offices and point to when clients as what “this graphic design thing is?”

That’s something that every designer has to decide by themselves if they allow that. I would love to do a group poster print but these things take time and knowledge, has to be CMYK, fonts have to be converted, needs to be high resolution etc. A huge task to set it up and I don’t have the time for that sorry.

Congratulations to all the winners, there is some really good work…. There has been a lot of interest in printing posters. I can print posters upto A0 in size and also they can be laminated too if you wish. Click on my name at the top and that will link you to my website. There is no poster option on the website as yet but you can email me your requirements through the website.

very nice contest and my congratulations to all contributors. some are still stunning and are a great inspiration to me. V thank you for such a nice competition. i will practice alot in the next coming month to participate in 2009.

But is it possible to order some of the designs as wallpaper? pietr your offer is nice, i will contact you later this day.
design is making my day more beautiful!

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Glen Craig Sat Feb 23, 2008 at 11.01 am

Well done to the winners, I particularly thought the 5th idea was innovative and well thought. I can’t believe I finished 9th amoung hundreds of strong designs.

Paul McLaren Sat Feb 23, 2008 at 03.22 pm

Fernando Lins, Glen Craig, Tom, eshark, simon : Thank you all for expressing your love to my poster :-) Please contact me if you’d like a full-sized print, I’ll be organizing something so we could all enjoy it on the walls in our offices :-)

azn man Mon Feb 25, 2008 at 02.36 pm

Congratulations winners! Every creation is so amazing… everyone deserves equal praise… you guys have given a new meaning to Graphic Design!

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Julien Gomez Mon Feb 25, 2008 at 04.50 pm

Congratulations to everyone, all those posters are great!
But as there are poster, i wolud like to see then on my wall!!! :-)
any chance to have them? at least in high resolution picture so i will be able to order one on a poster online service?
i can pay for it by paypal or something like that ;-)

best regards,

Julien

contact: gomezjul(@)hotmail.com without ()

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eric Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 06.33 pm

wow, amazing talent in this community…congrats Veerle on rocking the vote!

Way to run a hugely successful competition. Love the results. My fave are the watercolor letters. Not because it necessary communicates the concept the best, but its funny, original, and great design. Love it. Thx.

jessica Rosenberg Thu Feb 28, 2008 at 05.08 pm

Thanks Veerle for a fine contest - but perhaps more importantly - a forum for talking about a very interesting concept. 6th place is an honor among so many great entries.

I’m sorry some folks thought my concept fell short of the term Graphic Design (Fernando Lins, Piotr). I chose to not take the easier route and use an established definition, but to use my own struggles and growth as the context. For me, the battle between established graphic design principles (doing it “right”) and my need to do something new and unexpected - was an apt subject for the contest and I am happy with my entry.

Some of the negative responses are sad to me. Arrogance and pride are too much at home in the graphic design world. If anything we’ve discovered that the term means many things to many people in very different contexts.

I look forward to the next contest!

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Crowther Fri Feb 29, 2008 at 05.23 pm

I agree with Jessica Rosenberg, Graphic design is about communicating a message through the use of visual clues. A lot of the entries submitted are just wall paper, eye candy or just dull!, and then using type to express what graphic design is. Graphic design is about idea’s and wit expressed visually, something sadly lacking in this pool.

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jessica rosenberg Fri Feb 29, 2008 at 08.27 pm

I still think they are all beautiful, but maybe the title of the competition shouldnt have been graphic design? just a thought.

Congratulations to them for receiving the well deserved award in the ‘What is Graphic design poster competition’. It’s humbling to surround yourself with so many great designers. Thank you Veerle for organizing such a great event!

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Johannes Wed Mar 5, 2008 at 11.34 pm

Jessica & Crowther: Finally someone else that feels the same way.. Half of the winners lack concept and hardly communicate anything. Some of them are good though.